Culturally, Linguistically and Ability Diverse Children, Youth and Families • Deaf Literacy • Disproportionality • English Language Development/ESL • Reading Instruction • Social Skills and Discipline • Study Skills • Additional Topics

Related Organizations

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
10801 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD 20852
Tel: (800) 638-8255
Membership organization comprised of speech pathologists and audiologists that provides information and referrals to the public on speech, language, communication, and hearing disorders.
http://www.asha.org/

The National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education Through Technology, Media, and Materials
http://www.edc.org/FSC/NCIP:

Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf
House 144
11337 - 61 Avenue Edmonton
Alberta T6H 1M3
TTY: (780) 436-2599
Fax: (780) 430-9489
E-MAIL:ccsd@connect.ab.ca
http://www.connect.ab.ca/~ccsd/

National Association of the Deaf
http://www.nad.org/

The American Society for Deaf Children (ASDC)
An organization of parents and families that advocates for deaf or hard of hearing children's total quality participation in education, the family and the community.
http://www.deafchildren.org/

National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE)
is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA) to collect, analyze, and disseminate information relating to the effective education of linguistically and culturally diverse learners in the U.S.
http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/

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Related Sites

Project LITERACY-HI:
These electronic textbooks may be used as either supplements or alternative texts for high school students who are deaf or hearing impaired. http://ces.uoregon.edu/literacy.html

Project CONNECT:
puts out a kit which includes a videotape and articles illustrating a computer-based notetaking system for deaf students. http://ces.uoregon.edu/connect/connect.html

Jean Andrews
designed a multimedia computer application for Hispanic elementary and secondary students who are deaf.
http://www.deafed.lamar.edu/

Making English Accessible: Using Electronic Networks for Interaction in the Classroom: http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/education/success/teach.html:

CAP-Media, Inc.
creates software for captioning, annotating, and analyzing time-based media (digital video and audio, laserdiscs, and audio CDs) on Windows-compatible computers.
http://www.cap-media.com/:

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The Personal Communicator: :
A multimedia ASL/English translator on CD-ROM (Stewart, 19950). http://pilot.msu.edu/unit/msuaa/magazine/f95/cover.htm

Jamie Berke's Captioning Web Site
http://www.erols.com/berke:

Resources: Materials to Help You Teach
http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/education/success/teach.html

American Deaf Culture
http://www.signmedia.com/AboutDeafCulture.html

Deaf World Web
http://dww.deafworldweb.org/

Deaf Cyberkids
http://dww.deafworldweb.org/

Gallaudet University's Deaf Connections Web Page http://www.gallaudet.edu/~pubreweb/deafcon/index.html

Deaf WWW sites across the internet
Gallaudet University
http://www.gallaudet.edu/~pubreweb/newsinfo/deafinfo.html

ESL Applications for Hispanic Deaf Students http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/miscpubs/nabe/brj/v19n34/19_34_gerner.htm

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